APPENDIX.
I.
PREFATORY ADDRESS.
[From the edition of Deodat Lawson's Sermon printed in London, 1704.]
To all my Christian Friends and Acquaintance, the Inhabitants of Salem Village.
Christian Friends,—The sermon here presented unto you was delivered in your audience by that unworthy instrument who did formerly spend some years among you in the work of the ministry, though attended with manifold sinful failings and infirmities, for which I do implore the pardoning mercy of God in Jesus Christ, and entreat from you the covering of love. As this was prepared for that particular occasion when it was delivered amongst you, so the publication of it is to be particularly recommended to your service.